Innov8: Library Love

When you think of libraries, do you picture an older building with stacks of ancient books, a towering card catalogue cabinet and a stern librarian watching your every move?

Today’s libraries are very different from those of the past (although that librarian is probably still watching you.) Libraries offer access to tools, technology and training that is essential to the economic and cultural lives of communities. They are places of creativity where students can meet to use a 3D printer, edit a video or use software to record their own music.

So in celebration of National Library Week and its 2017 theme “Libraries Transform,” here are eight innovative education resources also created to transform and support 21st-century learning.

Movers, Shakers & Groundbreakers

Soft skills and SEL are important for everything from building career readiness to leadership skills.

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